1. People-oriented, Gentle Animals

This is something our kittens are practically born with thanks to the intensive support and care they receive from their mother and babies. The babies experience the foreign human species as friendly and caring. They are cared for by her, fed with milk if necessary and looked after. Later, they discover the world together, cuddle and play. As a result, the kittens are not shy, but very people-oriented. The mother cat is involved in caring for them and thus experiences humans as a source of support. She passes on her knowledge and this experience to the kittens.
In order to achieve this quality of socialization, the cattery must be small and remain so. This is impossible with factory farming!

2. The Health of a Low coi

Our breeding goal is a coi of less than 10% in addition to being human-oriented. This is also achieved in most litters thanks to outcross animals. Finding these animals is like looking for the famous needle in a haystack. It requires countless hours of research, patience, organization and a lot of money.
However, we don't only have outcross animals and therefore we don't achieve our breeding target of less than 10% coi with all litters. However, these litters are designed in such a way that the kittens from these matings have a lower coi value than the individual parents, thus increasing their gene pool. They are also far below the average coi of 16%.
We do not practice inbreeding or line breeding. The animals are mated exclusively by crossbreeding to keep the gene pool as large as possible.

3. Appearance

Many domestic breeds have lost their status as farm animals nowadays and are therefore subject to fashion. The classic lines seen in our cats are very similar to the appearance of the original Maine Coon. In the 2000s, many cat breeders became aware of the breed's gentle canine character. Too many. Because everyone wanted to give "their breed" a special look. Not always to their advantage, but always to the detriment of genetic diversity.
Our animals are somewhat different: they have neither ears of a donkey nor hamster cheeks. Not every animal has a tail that reaches the tip of its nose. As they have not been mated with desert dwellers, their legs are not overlong either. And they don't trip over their ear tufts. Fortunately, our cats are dear to us even without trophies! They don't have to be carted off to shows for hours and spend two days in cages with pathogens.
But they are still pretty, as anyone can see for themselves. 
Even if it didn't sound that way in the last few sentences: I have nothing against shows in principle! At the beginning of a breeding program, it is sensible and necessary to have animals judged by a show judge to ensure that you are breeding with an animal that meets the standard. 
However, the longer this breed is bred, the more extremes are gilded, with the result that the breed standard sometimes has to be adapted and animals that were in the original form can no longer be awarded titles. Breeders who want trophies and titles have to adapt their animals to the new look and restrict the gene pool through ever more extreme matings.In the end, they have no sales argument left apart from the titles, because the health and instinctive safety of the animals is ruined.
Instead of a champion title, our cats have their genetic diversity, their instinctive reliability and their lovable character.
We also do not breed according to coat color, as we are convinced that all colors are beautiful and that everyone has their own idea of what a cat should look like. We do have 2 ticked animals in our team, but this came about by chance when I finally found the genetically suitable outcross animal after a long search. But I don't mind, I think this wolf look suits the breed very well!